The Surge "Success" Debunked
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, the military said Sunday, two days after rebels killed 15 s...
Washington Post | Amit R. Paley | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in norther...
The Guardian | Jonathan Steele | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home
Back in Baghdad for the first time this year, I was consumed by the issue of change. What's different, I would ask almost every Iraqi I met. "What abo...
The New York Times | Erica Goode | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD -- The American military will hand over responsibility for the security of Anbar Province, once a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency and one o...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
I'm not bothered by 41 having an Oedipal thing to work out with 43. I just wish it they could do it around the dinner table, instead of breaking so much crockery on the world stage.
David A. Andelman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Yugoslavia has come apart, creating (so far) seven new and relatively peaceful nations. I asked 11 Iraqi sheikhs and provincial governors, Why not do this in Iraq today?
Washington Post | Mowaffak al-Rubaie | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iraq's government is at a stalemate. As in the United States, there is much discussion here of the need for political reconciliation. What does that m...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Turkish warplanes bombed separatist Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday, a statement posted on the military's Web site said. The milit...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
...Meanwhile, U.S. soldiers carrying out operations in volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad found mass graves next to what they called a torture ...
AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday increased military action against separatist Kurdish rebels was "unavoidable" and pressed the United States for a...
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics